WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

For all of you who think hard reset on WP is bad, or using WDRT is a pain, or that WP stuck in a bootloop is a PITA, try resetting an iPhone stuck in a bootloop using iTunes, good lord what a PITA and how slow is the process, the spinning gears and download stuck at 4% on WP is way better than a black screen on the phone and virtually no sign of progress bar movement on the iTunes screen (the phone screen is black throughout the process). Watching paint dry is a better use of time than this!!!

For all of you who think hard reset on WP is bad, or using WDRT is a pain, or that WP stuck in a bootloop is a PITA, try resetting an iPhone stuck in a bootloop using iTunes, good lord what a PITA and how slow is the process, the spinning gears and download stuck at 4% on WP is way better than a black screen on the phone and virtually no sign of progress bar movement on the iTunes screen (the phone screen is black throughout the process). Watching paint dry is a better use of time than this!!!

I think I mentioned this already that in our Microsoft partner conference in Singapore last year, majority of attendees including Microsoft employees are using products from Apple.

I'm not really surprised by that as WP was initially developed with capitalising on an Apple type platform. Getting people to buy into the ecosystem and locking them in.

Strangely however, though they seem to cater to iOS first (like everyone) they appear to be leaning more towards an Android like interface than a iOS type one. Then again I don't know enough about iOS to really comment.

Still, I have no gripe or bones to pick about what they use personally. It just doesn't give consumers confidence when you've got the top brass and other MS employees using competitor phones and then trying to sell their product to you. Doesn't look good overall.

Though consumers have voted with their feet ever since WP has come out. Some have stuck around others have come in and out of WP lots of people keep waiting for that 'ah ha' moment when the rest of the world will realise how great WP is and shift over. Thing is, there is very little compelling reason to go to WP. There's little reason to want to use it unless you're a fan of interface because that's all it's got to offer. The average consumer will not use Continuum, nor will enterprise. Continuum is a unique, niche area which will appeal to a small segment of the populace.

With WP still lacking mainstream apps (excluding the 3rd party equivalents), lacking enterprise support (they're still missing apps for it) and then releasing top tier phones that hasn't been marketed (still haven't seen a single ad for a L950 here) you have to wonder what they're doing and what their plans are.

At the end of the day, people want devices that perception wise, "just works" and have the conveniences modern platforms have - aka access to the apps of their choosing. As good as Android is, devs will still when making a cross platform app do the iOS version first...that's where the user base with the $ is. There is not doubt that Windows phone works, it works well as an OS. But MSFT's ability to build mindshare hasn't been good and even though their long term strategy in theory seems nice, it has the chance to blow up in their faces.

Plus, the recent hardware snafus and software delays with Windows 10 for older devices and bugginess of some builds on the newer Windows devices (and how unnecessarily overpriced the new hardware is) just isn't helping matters. The cellphone market is saturated. The upper budget range and mid range is where the battle is at these days, and if MSFT cannot court devs to build universal apps, the ship is sunk.